Sometimes
you just want to walk into a movie auditorium, sit down, not wanting to
think, maybe getting a smile or two or, even better, laugh out loud and
“We’re The Millers” fits that description to a tee! Yes it is raunchy
with the ‘F’ word used constantly, body parts are referred to and
exposed with, in this case, frontal nudity by a male and not a female,
though Jennifer Aniston, or a body double, as a stripper shows about
everything.

There
is no second guessing to where the screenplay, written by Bob Fisher,
Steve Faber, Sean Anders and John Morris, is heading but there is
questioning as to why this movie needed 4 writers! David (Jason
Sudeikis) is a drug dealer, who, due to financial circumstances, becomes
a drug smuggler---seems there is a distinct difference between the
two--and has to acquire a family to cross over the border to Mexico
without looking suspicious. He hires Rose (Jennifer Aniston) who lives
in his building and works as a stripper who gives lap dancers, to be his
wife. Next door is a naive boy, Kenny (Will Poulter) whose family have
left him at home and David hires him to be his son while Casey (Emma
Roberts), a not necessarily homeless girl, becomes the sister/daughter.

Along
the way you meet the ‘bad’ guys, a drug lord Pablo (Tomer Sisley) and
his vicious sidekick played by Matthew Willig plus the instigator of the
whole plot. another drug lord Brad (Ed Helms) who has an aquarium in
his office worth the price of admission alone! There is also the family
that the Millers want to look and act like but aren’t really who their
appearances tend to make you believe, consisting of Mr. (Nick Offerman)
and Mrs. (Kathryn Hahn) Fitzgerald, often having the funniest lines, and
their daughter Melissa (Molly Quinn).

As
in many movies of late there are the dirty talk by females sequences,
masturbation, crotch jokes by the males and talks about tampons along
with the sweet virgins exploring their future. There is a funny, but
goes too far, teaching the male virgin how to kiss scene and a hot scene
with Aniston doing a strip that shows this woman still has ‘it’ though
the scene really is a rip-off of “Flashdance” with shower and sparks!

Aniston
and Sudeikis work well together and the cast feels very comfortable
working off each other. The director, Rawson Marshall Thurber, should
have, and could have, easily cut the movie by 15 minutes letting too
many scenes go overlong and not feeling that he had to get in every word
of the four writers!

Not an award winning, or a must see, film but certainly more fun than expected!